Christian Bale has denied that he is a method actor, saying that his performances are "pure imagination".

The actor, who won a Golden Globe for his role as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter, told The Mirror that despite comparisons to Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis, his portrayals are a result of 'winging it'.

Bale explained: "I'm not having therapy. It's very limiting if I have to relate every damn thing in somebody else's life to something thatâ€™s happened in mine. At the end of the day, I'm faking it. Pure imagination.

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"I never took any classes, I just go, 'I better wing this one and make it up!' Everybody talks about the process too much. The interesting thing about a movie is the movie."

He added: "The more I talk about it, the more I'm telling people how to react. I want to talk, but I try not to show too much of myself."